The Sensitivity of Heavy Precipitation to Horizontal Resolution, Domain Size, and Rain Rate Assimilation: Case Studies with a Convection-Permitting Model by Xingbao Wang, Peter Steinle, Alan Seed, Yi Xiao

“…The Australian Community Climate and Earth-System Simulator (ACCESS) is used to test the sensitivity of heavy precipitation to various model configurations: horizontal resolution, domain size, rain rate assimilation, perturbed physics, and initial condition uncertainties, through a series of convection-permitting simulations of three heavy precipitation (greater than 200 mm day−1) cases in different synoptic backgrounds. …”
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Impact of elexacaftor/tezacaftor/ivacaftor (ETI) on the prescription refill rate (PRR) for inhaled medications in people with CF: an Italian multicenter analysis by Andrea Gramegna, Giuseppe Cimino, Marco Cipolli, Giovanna Gandini, Maria Adelaide Calderazzo, Angelica Profiti, Federica Piedepalumbo, Francesco Blasi

“…Abstract This retrospective population-based study investigated the impact of elexacaftor/tezacaftor/ivacaftor (ETI) therapy on inhaled medication adherence in people with cystic fibrosis (pwCF). Prescription refill rate (PRR) for several inhaled medications were compared before and after ETI introduction in three major Italian CF centers. …”
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Effects of autolytical fish protein hydrolysate on growth performance, survival rate, and hematological indices in farmed juvenile beluga, Huso huso by Ali Hosseinpour Zelaty

“…The experiment was carried out in 15 tanks (500-L), each containing 50 fish. The inflow water rate was 2 L/min, and the water exchange rate was 6 to 7 times per day in each tank. …”
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Association Between Resting Heart Rate and the Risk of Incident Hypertension Among Older Chinese Adults: A Prospective Cohort Study by Shiyu Lou, Zihan Yu, Yizhu Song, Dechen Liu

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Applying Finite Element Method–Dirichlet Boundary Condition Iteration to the Computation of Coupling Factors for a 3-D Human Model by Giovanni Aiello, Salvatore Alfonzetti, Santi Agatino Rizzo, Nunzio Salerno

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Epigenome-wide association study of Chinese monozygotic twins identifies DNA methylation loci associated with estimated glomerular filtration rate by Xueting Qi, Jingjing Wang, Tong Wang, Weijing Wang, Dongfeng Zhang

Subjects: “…Estimated glomerular filtration rate…”
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Pathfinding for Mobile Robot Navigation by Exerting the Quarter-Sweep Modified Accelerated Overrelaxation (QSMAOR) Iterative Approach via the Laplacian Operator by A’qilah A. Dahalan, Azali Saudi, Jumat Sulaiman

“…Within this study, improving the navigation problem of a mobile robot iteratively by using a numerical method based on the potential field method is one of the main aims. …”
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Clinical Pregnancy and Miscarriage Rates in relation to Vitamin D Supplementation among women with Hyper Androgenic PCOS: A prospective study by Sherif Sobhy Menshawy Khalifa, Wael Gaber Eldamaty, Ahmed Tharwat Abo Dakika, Mohamed Zaeim Hafez Ahmed, Muhammad Abdelbaeth Hassan Elfiky, Ghada Adel Hegazy

“…Prenatal vitamin D administration raises maternal and baby 25(OH)D levels.Aims to assess the 25(OH)D supplementation effects on rate of clinical pregnancy and miscarriage in women with hyper androgenic polycystic ovarian disorder. …”
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Incidence rate and associated patient characteristics of liver disease in Wales 2004–2022: a retrospective population-scale observational study by Ashley Akbari, Andrew Yeoman, Haroon Ahmed, Jingwei Gao, Aled Davies, Thomas Peter Ignatius Pembroke

“…A better understanding of the incidence of liver disease is the first step towards effective prevention, early detection and targeted intervention to improve patient outcomes.…”
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Midcourse Guidance Law Based on High Target Acquisition Probability Considering Angular Constraint and Line-of-Sight Angle Rate Control by Xiao Liu, Shengjing Tang, Jie Guo, Yuhang Yun, Zhe Chen

“…Then, a new formulation biased proportional navigation (BPN) guidance law with angular constraint and LOS angle rate control has been derived to ensure the tracking ability when attacking the maneuvering target. …”
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Corrigendum to “Multifractal-Multiscale Analysis of Cardiovascular Signals: A DFA-Based Characterization of Blood Pressure and Heart-Rate Complexity by Gender” by Paolo Castiglioni, Davide Lazzeroni, Paolo Coruzzi, Andrea Faini

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Risk Balancing of Cold Ischemic Time against Night Shift Surgery Possibly Reduces Rates of Reoperation and Perioperative Graft Loss by Nikos Emmanouilidis, Julius Boeckler, Bastian P. Ringe, Alexander Kaltenborn, Frank Lehner, Hans Friedrich Koch, Jürgen Klempnauer, Harald Schrem

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The Impact of Breast Clinic on the Mastectomy and Axillary Clearance Rates at a Tertiary Hospital in an Eastern Caribbean Nation: A Comparative Study by Shariful Islam, Imran Aziz, Jitendra Shah, Jacob Oba, Patrick Harnarayan, Arlene Jammie Rampersad, Vijay Naraynsingh

“…The overall mastectomy rate was reduced from 62% to 51% (0.7 to 0.4) and the axillary clearance rate from 66.79% versus 37.31% (0.6 to 0.4) after the introduction of the clinic with p values of 0.007 and 0.009, respectively. …”
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Comparison of the effect of chest tube diameter on drainage rate and tube performance in patients with pleural effusion. A cross-sectional study by Ehsan Gholami, Gholamreza Sharifzadeh, Matin Vahedi, Alireza Samimiat, Reza Eslamian, Hossein Ebrahimpour

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MAC-Layer QoS Management for Streaming Rate-Adaptive VBR Video over IEEE 802.11e HCCA WLANs by Jianfei Cai, Deyun Gao, Jianhua Wu

“…In this paper, we propose a cross-layer framework for efficiently delivering multiclass rate-adaptive VBR video over HCCA. The proposed framework consists of three major modules: the MAC-layer admission control, the MAC-layer resource allocation, and the application-layer video adaptation. …”
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SARS-CoV-2 positivity rates in tear secretions of inpatient COVID-positive individuals in an Indian tertiary care setting by Amit Raj, Prateek Nishant, Binod K Pati, Bhawesh C Saha, Prabhakar Singh, Asim Sarfaraz, Sanepalli Sravani, Kopal Shrivastav

“…This study aimed to determine the presence of SARS-CoV-2 RNA in tears as detected by real-time polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR), among individuals who tested COVID-positive during the third wave of the COVID pandemic. …”
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Enhanced prediction of energy dissipation rate in hydrofoil-crested stepped spillways using novel advanced hybrid machine learning models by Ehsan Afaridegan, Nosratollah Amanian

Subjects: “…Energy dissipation rate…”
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Dietary Fe-Gly supplementation attenuates enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli (ETEC)-induced inflammation response and intestinal barrier dysfunction in piglets by Qing Gao, Qing Gao, Qing Gao, Yilong Zhang, Yabin Wu, Dianchao Gu, Junzhou Chen, Conghui Yin, Hao Wu, Dan Zhu, Daiwen Chen, Aimin Wu

Subjects: “…enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli (ETEC)…”
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Association of vaginal oestradiol and the rate of breast cancer in Denmark: registry based, case-control study, nested in a nationwide cohort by Christian Torp-Pedersen, Lina Steinrud Mørch, Nelsan Pourhadi, Amani Meaidi, Ellen Christine Løkkegaard

“…Results were similar in women who had long term use (≥four years) and with high intensity of use (>50-70 micrograms per week) with an adjusted hazard ratio 0.93 (95% confidence interval 0.81 to 1.08).Conclusions Use of vaginal oestradiol tablets was not associated with increased breast cancer rate compared with never-use. Increasing duration and intensity of use was not associated with increased rates of breast cancer.…”
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Protection of Passeriformes Birds in Wetland Ecological Restoration: A Case Study of the Reed Parrotbill (<i>Paradoxornis heudei</i>) in Baiyangdian by Qi Sun, Heng Wu, Taijun Zuo, Zengrui Tian, Jiaojiao Wang, Jianhua Hou

Subjects: “…reed parrotbill…”
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